Week 6
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Week 1: The Freehand MX Interface
In class exercise: The wrench.
Assignment- Create a simple personal geometric logo using circles, squares and lines. (10%)
Week 3- Functional design : Symbols and Instances:
Assignment: Using paper, create a linear drawing of your personal home page.(10%)
Week 4- Functional Design: Importing bitmaps into FreeHand MX
Assignment: Create a comp of your personal Home Page in FreeHand MX (10%)
Assignment: Locate a logo that is particularly effective and be prepared to present it to the class.
Explain why it is so effective.
What message does it convey?
Are there any potential design issues involving its use in web media and what would
you do to resolve those issues. (5%)
Week 6- Dimensions of design: Logo creation in FreeHand
Assignment: Create a personal set of letters in FreeHand spelling out your last name. The largest inside square can be no more than ¼ of the full size letter and the maximum number of inside squares is 3.(10%)
Week 7/8- Typography
Assignment: Create a personal typographic logo. (10%)
Week 9- Forms and Structure: Grid-based interface design.
Assignment: Using a 3 X 4 grid, design a balanced personal home page. (10%)
Week 10- Icons and Symbols: Developing iconic interfaces for use in web pages and mobile devices.
Assignment: Create an interface for a Palm Pilot email application. (10%)
Week 11/12- Colour
Assignment: Analyse a web site using the principals covered over the past 12 weeks and prepare to present them to your classmates. (25%)
Week 13,14,15- Critiques
Weeks 13 and 14 will be presentations of sites from weeks 11 and 12. Week 15 will be presentations of project work done in class.
The use of colour to present a compelling message and support design objectives is the focus of this week's lesson.
We will be decronstructuing and reconstructing a web site with the focus on the use of a grid and colour.
The site we'll be using is : http://www.xs4all.nl/uk/
Here are some links to sites that will allow you to look at colours and their compliments:
http://www.colormatch.dk/
http://www.perrelink.com.au/resources/colourchart/colorchart.htm
It is rather simple. You are being asked to explore the design of something only using the principals of "Notan". Notan is a Japanese word for "light/dark". The word, however, means more than that. The principle of Notan as it relates to design is defined as the interaction between positive (light) and negative (dark) space.
In this assignment , you will spell out the letters of your last name using only dark and light. If you look at the first letter of my last name you will see how this assignment works.
You can have no more than 3 squares inside each letter.The three used in the "G" are quite evident. No , inside square can take up more than 1/4 of the full letter.This why I offset the two at the top and bottom in the letter " N". They break up a square that would predominate.
Enjoy. Have fun. Be creative.
http://www.artclothstudios.com/Demonstrations/Expanded/expanded.html
http://www.santarosa.edu/art/art3/notan-sp03-web/FrameSet.htm